{"id":1755,"date":"2017-02-06T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:19:17","slug":"vfx-laikas-kubo-two-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/vfx-laikas-kubo-two-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"The VFX of LAIKA\u2019s \u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019 | VFXWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VFXWorld \u2014 January 2017
Explore the VFX of LAIKA\u2019s \u2018Kubo and the Two Strings\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marking more than two decades since a stop-motion animated feature has been nominated for an Oscar for visual effects (1993\u2019s The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/em>), LAIKA\u2019s Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em> has been full of surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop-motion animation is an established discipline: single frame by single frame — with 24 frames per second — animators subtly and painstakingly manipulate tangible objects on a working stage. Each frame is photographed twice in order to create a final stereoscopic 3D image. Then the thousands of photographed frames are edited and projected together sequentially, bringing the characters and environments to life: movie magic created by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at LAIKA, that is simply one aspect of the studio\u2019s unique hybridization technique that has been perfected across its previous films, including Coraline<\/em>, ParaNorman<\/em> and The Boxtrolls<\/em>. The visual effects team is at work on every frame as well, sometimes for environment expansion or crowd enhancement, and sometimes for intangible additions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by visual effects supervisor Steve Emerson, the intermingling of live sets and VFX extensions reaches new heights with Kubo and the Two Strings.<\/em> A classic hero\u2019s quest of David Lean proportions, the action-filled epic film\u2019s course was charted for a fantastical version of ancient Japan, inspired mostly by the Edo period of the early 1600s to the late 1800s. As LAIKA chief and Kubo and the Two Strings <\/em>director and producer Travis Knight comments, \u201cLAIKA does what live-action films do, but in miniature and with inanimate puppets!\u201d (Read full story\u2026<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n